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Love the Chancellor Seems a proper canny guy.

Saw him at the Monument an hour earlier. Thought he said takeaway, that's why I pointed him in the direction of the Haymarket. Massively downhill from that point onwards, unfortunately. He went asking for spicy food and ended up with a bag of spice, those language barriers, man. Killer.

Shocking that like. Really disappointing.

Rafa's been on the p*ss all day by the looks of him. He has aye, saw him spiced out at Haymarket this morning mumbling something about a takeover. Weirdo.

Bender and a half, that.

Looks more like Susan Boyle to me like.

I'm going for 6-2 to Newcastle after Duncan Ferguson puts the visitors in front.

He has what would eventually be known as goal-line technology bang on there like, fair play to Mr Greenwood.

Perfect

Drink your own p*ss? Drink everyone's p*ss from the forum? And stream it on Twitch. No pun intended. If there's no announcement at 3pm tomorrow your username should be decided by poll. I'm going for "3pm Press Conference".

Have yourself a shot of bleach :lol:

Saying what? She said, and I quote: "Everything was going so well until I returned from the loo to find Mr Ashley - cheeks bloated - had ate the rest of my Peshwari Naan. I know it was only a £9 meal, but it's the principle, and I therefore do not wish to do any business with this man." A real shame.

Dunno about IQ but it suggests the person's opinion is entirely based in form and physical evidence. IE. a player is playing bad and therefore must be bad. Which is obviously not the case when you take into account non-physical evidence like confidence & team mentality. It's smarter to not have your opinion change 'with the wind' and instead use a broader scope to base your perspective in. Pretty disingenuous really. It is very often the case that certain players can not make the transition from other leagues to the PL. I agree calling total garbage or whatever is OTT but there is legitimate concerns with him imo It's also very often the case that people are too quick to make the call on whether someone can make the transition or not. To do so after 10 games definitely is one of those cases, regardless of how bad you have perceived the player to be. There'll be hundreds, even thousands of cases where top players have looked poor for spells of ten games or more. I'm not saying people shouldn't have their opinions on how someone is playing at present, but to use that evidence to form any form of conclusive judgement is nearly always going to result in changing their mind further down the line. Imo, lots of people do this for the small victory of "see I knew it!". That doesn't seem like the greatest way to support a team or a player, we should be rooting for our lot until the evidence is overwhelming in favour of not good enough, Jack Colback for instance. Nah I get what you're saying, we just have to strike a balance. Personally I think he's been awful recently and there's a chance that his attributes will not make him a success in the PL. Hope I'm wrong Same here, I've seen a mixture of quality & clumsiness from him so far. I'm still positive that the latter will leave his game once he's settled to use the cliche phrase, and the quality - that is definitely there - will come to the forefront.

West Ham and Palace both have fewer points than us. Point being, they can both raise their game and I'm not sure we can. What evidence are you basing that on, out of curiosity?

Jose getting boosted on the sly The Portuguese are really miles ahead with their approach to drugs.

Dunno about IQ but it suggests the person's opinion is entirely based in form and physical evidence. IE. a player is playing bad and therefore must be bad. Which is obviously not the case when you take into account non-physical evidence like confidence & team mentality. It's smarter to not have your opinion change 'with the wind' and instead use a broader scope to base your perspective in. Pretty disingenuous really. It is very often the case that certain players can not make the transition from other leagues to the PL. I agree calling total garbage or whatever is OTT but there is legitimate concerns with him imo It's also very often the case that people are too quick to make the call on whether someone can make the transition or not. To do so after 10 games definitely is one of those cases, regardless of how bad you have perceived the player to be. There'll be hundreds, even thousands of cases where top players have looked poor for spells of ten games or more. I'm not saying people shouldn't have their opinions on how someone is playing at present, but to use that evidence to form any form of conclusive judgement is nearly always going to result in changing their mind further down the line. Imo, lots of people do this for the small victory of "see I knew it!". That doesn't seem like the greatest way to support a team or a player, we should be rooting for our lot until the evidence is overwhelming in favour of not good enough, Jack Colback for instance.

Dunno about IQ but it suggests the person's opinion is entirely based in form and physical evidence. IE. a player is playing bad and therefore must be bad. Which is obviously not the case when you take into account non-physical evidence like confidence & team mentality. It's smarter to not have your opinion change 'with the wind' and instead use a broader scope to base your perspective in.

Excellent post.

He was playing on the left when he came on wasn’t he? I’ve got a s**** view, so might be wrong. He done his best work from the left when he came on, whether he was sent on to play there or not I'm not sure. What I do know is, in his time here so far he's played some of his best football on the left under Pardew & I think at times McClaren too.

He's a London boy, too cool to celebrate.

Fair enough, I still reckon Ben Arfa is the most gifted of the three, and if he worked as hard as the Given & Shearer did to reach their potential he would have been a world class player, alas he's 'wasted' his talent through non-application and an unprofessional attitude.

Hasn't done Pickford any harm by the looks of it. He looks a very good keeper despite being in a struggling 11 his whole top flight career to date.

Loma - Rigo II

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Ben Arfa in the same sentence as Shearer and Given. Yes, because they're three of my favourite players. I said nothing of them being in the same calibre as eachother. Although fwiw Ben Arfa is the most talented of the three by a distance.